Andy Cole Quotes

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.

It's a lot of hard work to be a manager or a coach. But as players, we had to have a good work ethic to be good, and we can use that trait in management or as a coach.

Many fine coaches never become great managers.

I have always said that management is not something I fancied, but it's suddenly, naturally started to enter my head.

When you're a manager you always have tunnel vision at certain times.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

Managers are driving the ship, so to speak, without actually being on the pitch, so every manager I've worked under here definitely deserves credit.

Mourinho is the best manager I've ever worked with.

My job as a manager is to get the best out of your players. Sometimes you get it wrong, and you won't get the response that you want, but we all face that every single day.

As for whether I am a 'new age guru', I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.